I hope my question is at the right place here since I couldn't find any contacts on the website.

I work for a Post Production company and were creating a TV commercial for a client of ours.
We need a shot of kid playing a game for about 1.5 sec.
Since most games have strict copyrights and can't be used for something like this I thought maybe we can try a GPL based game.
I thought GPL and GPL2 where against any form of broadcast of the software but im not sure about that.

Even then I still wanna ask the creators of this game if they have a problem with a 1 sec during shot for a Dutch TV commercial.

thnx in advance!

Hi there.

The 'info' page http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/information.php has a contact right in the first sentence, the team leaders email address (vermeulen@alientrap.org).
Then against GPL is not against broadcasting but against 'deriving without making the sources available'.. GPL also states:

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The output from running a
covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its
content, constitutes a covered work.  This License acknowledges your
rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.

I think using a 1.5 sec shot IS covered by fair use and also does not fall under the 'derived work' clause.
However i think its fair to ask for a small 'thanks for alientrap / nexuiz' line in the spot or a a link from your site to the nexuiz.com site?

There'd be no problem with that at all,
There was a student film project a while ago, about a few gamers that try to win a national deathmatch competition, that used Nexuiz pretty much exclusively. So I definitely try to encourage any publicity like that.

esteel wrote:Hi there.

The 'info' page http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/information.php has a contact right in the first sentence, the team leaders email address (vermeulen@alientrap.org).
Then against GPL is not against broadcasting but against 'deriving without making the sources available' I think using a 1.5 sec shot IS covered by fair use and also does not fall under the 'derived work' clause.
However i think its fair to ask for a small 'thanks for alientrap / nexuiz' line in the spot or a a link from your site to the nexuiz.com site?

Thank's for this information. I'll send them an e-mail right away (ah I see he allready replied)
Since im a programmer I know what to expect from GPL / GPL2 in code terms this on the other hand is a new story for me so thank you for explanation.

Vermeulen wrote:There'd be no problem with that at all,
There was a student film project a while ago, about a few gamers that try to win a national deathmatch competition, that used Nexuiz pretty much exclusively. So I definitely try to encourage any publicity like that.

Cool! gonna keep that in mind.
All this is making me feeling pretty good about the situation!
thnx again.

Hi,

BTW, I'd be interested to hear if it's used. Maybe a link to the forums if it, (the ad. I mean), is available on the web?

Cheers
Andy